Noob question. Caddy HDD wont work

LupoLover

LupoLover

LupoLover

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Hi all

I have just got a 1.5TB Samsung Spinpoint to back up stuff from laptop, it plugs into a sharkroon caddy and USB into laptop. Put drive in and laptop recognises it with a icon in bottem right (safley remove hardware) however in my computer there is no hdd? What am I doing wrong? Do I have to stick it in a PC 1st to format it? My other 500gb hadd works fine in this caddy.

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In disk management it recognises disk in there. I go through the format procedure, and then when you click ok for it to formate I get this error

The operation could not be completed because the disk is not initialized.

Any ideas?
 
LupoLover said:
An initialized disk option? If there is I cnat find it. Any ideas where it is? Never had such a problem before.
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If you right click on the grey area at the left hand side of the disk management display (where it says DiskX etc) there should be an option on that menu.
 
Did a Quick format and comes up fine in disk management, but still cant get it on my computer? Any idea? Please dont say I have to do a full format as that seems to want to take 300 hours!!!
 
All setting look same as when I plug another hdd in. I calle dteh Volume Just my name and then tryed G: and still nothing. Formatted as NTFS.
 
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